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Elgar case accused observe hunger strike in jail against institutional murder of Stan Swamy
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The tragic death of 84-year-old tribal rights defender Father Stan Swamy has brought the politics behind the Elgar Parishad case into focus as many politicians, activists and intellectuals condemned it as “murder” by State.
The Narendra Modi government had abruptly transferred the case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as soon as the new Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra declared its intention to review it. Ironically, the previous state government led by the BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis and the Centre had vehemently opposed the plea in the Supreme Court to transfer the case to the NIA.
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The somersault of the Modi government came when the Congress and the NCP openly campaigned for review of the Elgar Parishad case, describing it as a BJP conspiracy. NCP veteran Sharad Pawar wrote to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray suggesting a special investigation team be set up to examine the case in the wake of allegations that Pune police had cooked up evi
The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi.
“THEY killed Stan Swamy.” Fellow journalist John Dayal’s Facebook message startled me. The 84-year-old Jesuit priest was put on the ventilator two days ago after weeks of fighting Covid at a private hospital in Mumbai. Although denied bail, a judge permitted him to be treated for the virus contracted in prison.
Swamy was suffering from Parkinson’s when he was thrown into prison in October last year, and was slapped with outrageous terror charges. Nothing better can be expected, of course, from India’s palpably communal rulers. They thrive on a blend of hate and ignorance. It was early in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s innings that a Hindutva fanatic murdered an Australian missionary and his two young sons in an Orissa village by setting their jeep on fire. Vajpayee was at least contrite and condemned the crime publicly. That was a different stage in the steady journey of Hindutva.